Same accomplishment as SpaceX but with a lot less hullabaloo. This is Jeff Bezos's style.
Still, good to see that someone other than SpaceX is serious about reusability and capable of pulling off a landing. The performance of "old space" has been nothing short of embarrassing. I'm no fan of Blue Origin, but the teams there pulled off one of the hardest feats in all of spaceflight.
Three times a week. They may have two launches at the same times today, from West and East coast.
If those launches go on schedule, that will mean 4 launches (New Glenn, Atlas 5, and two Falcon 9s) in 31 hours from the Cape Canaveral area in Florida.
Who did it first doesn't matter. What matters is who can do it the cheapest. Blue Origin has now destroyed SpaceX's cost advantage. That's good for humanity because you don't want a megalomaniac like Elon Musk to be the only one launching satellites and the only with a satellite internet service.
I think you’re a touch premature saying they’ve destroyed the cost advantage.
In 5 or 10 years if they’re launching three times a week, maybe.